Bethesda Soccer On Way Down

[Anonymous]

Be proud of your kids playing on the 3rd or 4th team at a club. You can say you're at a club with a strong 1st team. You're subsidizing the 1st team players, so be proud of your club.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Be proud of your kids playing on the 3rd or 4th team at a club. You can say you're at a club with a strong 1st team. You're subsidizing the 1st team players, so be proud of your club.

So what about the kids in the 3rd and 4th teams? They should just give up and go away? Or move to another club where they’ll be in the ‘first’ team and pad someone else’s pockets? It’s been established fees are about the same everywhere.

If your kid is on the 3rd or 4th team, it means there are many other kids that are further along in their development no matter where you go.

[Anonymous]

Is Bethesda still a non-profit? Can’t find their 501(c)3 designation on their website or the EIN or any of their tax returns. Aren’t non profits suppose to make that information public?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Bethesda still a non-profit? Can’t find their 501(c)3 designation on their website or the EIN or any of their tax returns. Aren’t non profits suppose to make that information public?

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/521223186

[Anonymous]

Why don’t THEY make it public? Also the last tax return on that site is 2022. Something shady going on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Be proud of your kids playing on the 3rd or 4th team at a club. You can say you're at a club with a strong 1st team. You're subsidizing the 1st team players, so be proud of your club.

Seriously. Playing at a club for the logo on your uniform is ridiculous. There are some developmental coaches that coach those kids (sometimes) but from reading this thread people are just there for the name and a prayer that their kid bumps up to the big leagues team wise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Bethesda still a non-profit? Can’t find their 501(c)3 designation on their website or the EIN or any of their tax returns. Aren’t non profits suppose to make that information public?

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/521223186

Where is 2023?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be proud of your kids playing on the 3rd or 4th team at a club. You can say you're at a club with a strong 1st team. You're subsidizing the 1st team players, so be proud of your club.

So what about the kids in the 3rd and 4th teams? They should just give up and go away? Or move to another club where they’ll be in the ‘first’ team and pad someone else’s pockets? It’s been established fees are about the same everywhere.

If your kid is on the 3rd or 4th team, it means there are many other kids that are further along in their development no matter where you go.

I just watched their 4th team Bethesda(Dempsey) just tear it up today

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be proud of your kids playing on the 3rd or 4th team at a club. You can say you're at a club with a strong 1st team. You're subsidizing the 1st team players, so be proud of your club.

So what about the kids in the 3rd and 4th teams? They should just give up and go away? Or move to another club where they’ll be in the ‘first’ team and pad someone else’s pockets? It’s been established fees are about the same everywhere.

If your kid is on the 3rd or 4th team, it means there are many other kids that are further along in their development no matter where you go.

I just watched their 4th team Bethesda(Dempsey) just tear it up today

Then they shouldn't be playing in the 5th/last division of a tournament

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They’re still going down. No quality, just the logo on the jersey, and tax returns.

This made me spurt my afternoon coffee

- former Bethesda family (and foolish payer of not for profit (ah hem) fees.

This club is why Michael Lewis suggestion for federal regulation of travel sports makes sense to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They’re still going down. No quality, just the logo on the jersey, and tax returns.

This made me spurt my afternoon coffee

- former Bethesda family (and foolish payer of not for profit (ah hem) fees.

This club is why Michael Lewis suggestion for federal regulation of travel sports makes sense to me.

Yeah, federal regulation has been such an extraordinary success in so many other endeavors. Just wait until we have tax deductions for clubs conditioned on compliance with federal mandates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be proud of your kids playing on the 3rd or 4th team at a club. You can say you're at a club with a strong 1st team. You're subsidizing the 1st team players, so be proud of your club.

So what about the kids in the 3rd and 4th teams? They should just give up and go away? Or move to another club where they’ll be in the ‘first’ team and pad someone else’s pockets? It’s been established fees are about the same everywhere.

If your kid is on the 3rd or 4th team, it means there are many other kids that are further along in their development no matter where you go.

I just watched their 4th team Bethesda(Dempsey) just tear it up today

Then they shouldn't be playing in the 5th/last division of a tournament

you are looking at it the wrong way

What this proves is that their 4th team is superior then other programs 3rd,2nd, and 1st teams

So according to their u9 they are not going down anytime soon

Now based on my observations I think they had a good chance of winning the 4th division as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They’re still going down. No quality, just the logo on the jersey, and tax returns.

This made me spurt my afternoon coffee

- former Bethesda family (and foolish payer of not for profit (ah hem) fees.

This club is why Michael Lewis suggestion for federal regulation of travel sports makes sense to me.

You do know that even non-profits have fees, right?

Being pampered and privileged must be tough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They’re still going down. No quality, just the logo on the jersey, and tax returns.

This made me spurt my afternoon coffee

- former Bethesda family (and foolish payer of not for profit (ah hem) fees.

This club is why Michael Lewis suggestion for federal regulation of travel sports makes sense to me.

You do know that even non-profits have fees, right?

Being pampered and privileged must be tough.

Someone should do an audit of those six figure credit card fees or how they lost money on a supposed charitable fundraiser golf tournament. A food and booze filled day where well off families funded KL, SC and others to party under the auspices of a tax write off to fund scholarships.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They’re still going down. No quality, just the logo on the jersey, and tax returns.

This made me spurt my afternoon coffee

- former Bethesda family (and foolish payer of not for profit (ah hem) fees.

This club is why Michael Lewis suggestion for federal regulation of travel sports makes sense to me.

You do know that even non-profits have fees, right?

Being pampered and privileged must be tough.

Someone should do an audit of those six figure credit card fees or how they lost money on a supposed charitable fundraiser golf tournament. A food and booze filled day where well off families funded KL, SC and others to party under the auspices of a tax write off to fund scholarships.

It’s a moot point very soon.